today manchester airport is hosting a jobs today manchester airport is hosting ajobs fair today manchesterorformer today manchester airport is hosting a jobs fair for former thomas cook employees looking for work. hundreds of vacancies at rival companies like british airways, booking duck, and tui are on offer. then is there now. welcome to manchester airport. 900 staff are expected to pass through here today, the first of several careers here today, the first of several careers fair that they are holding here to try and match up employers with a staff who lost theirjobs at thomas cook when it collapsed last week. the big numbers involved. about 9000 staff in the uk, and 3000 based in and around the north west. the fair is getting well under way and what they are doing is trying to find other travel firms, hotel businesses, airport groups, that need staff. frankly with thomas cook, the flights were full and there were passengers on those planes, so it was not an issue of demand but about how the business was run. while they have their briefing about what they might expect, let me introduce

ben is at manchester airport for us. good morning.ent jobs, check—in, cabin crew, engineers. you might be able to make out the thomas cook claim that has recently landed. not really going anywhere anytime soon. of course, this last week has been really tough for those workers are trying to work out what happens next. we have been looking back at the ten days and they have been a tough time for those workers. this is a reminder. our headlines: thomas cook colla pses. our headlines: thomas cook collapses. our management seem to have disappeared off into the sunset with millions and millions of pounds. it is heartbreaking. i have been there 20 years but a lot of people have been there a lot longer than me. angry, devastated, cheery. our livelihoods have just gone, overnight, just like that. foodbank vouchers, we have never had to do that in our life and these are proud people. i do not know what to do. i am now homeless. my landlord is demanding a leave the property so i am having to wait for the local council to see if they can put me i

tom burridge, bbc news, manchester airport.age of 27. hanna was a talented producer and reporter and during her career was part of the team here on the six and ten o'clock news. among her recent projects was an investigation into working conditions at costa coffee stores. she also wrote for the bbc news website and was part of the team on the bbc news channel. the bbc‘s director of news, fran unsworth, said she was a great investigative journalist and widely admired by colleagues. sir mo farah's former coach has been banned from athletics for four years after being found guilty of doping violations. alberto salazar, who ran the prestigious nike oregon project where sir mo was based for seven years, has been under investigation by the united states anti—doping agency since a bbc panorama programme first revealed the story in 2015. there are no allegations against farah. mark daly reports. he's the man who helped turn sir mo farah into britain's greatest ever track athlete. alberto salazar, seen herejust days ago at the world cha

tom burridge, bbc news, manchester airport. the headlines on bbc news...how of military might as communist china turns seventy — but there's clashes in hong kong as demonstrators defy a protest ban. the duchess of sussex has started legal action against the mail on sunday newspaper over an allegation it unlawfully published one of her private letters. one of britain's rarest mammals is once again living in the forest of dean in gloucestershire. pinemartens, which are about the size of a cat, were hunted to extinction there a hundred years ago — now 18 have been relocated from scotland. sally challoner reports, this is the moment the wild pinemartens were released from their secret holding pen into the forest of dean. transported the 200 odd miles from scotland last month, it's hope they'll establish, breed, and spread here. so when they come down from scotland, you put them in here for a few days, they are going to climatise to their surroundings, and when they are ready to go, and we are happy that they are safe and healthy, we open the gates, and out the

the planes are grounded and we also saw pictures of row upon row of thomas cook aircraft at manchester airportsose planes to get those people. this looks like common sense is going to prevail and there will bea is going to prevail and there will be a change in the insolvency law which would allow the civil aviation authority a window of opportunity to get those planes back in action, get the cruise on—boa rd get those planes back in action, get the cruise on—board and go and bring back people who have been stranded abroad. an awful lot of people were left, 130,000 passengers were left, it cost £100 million to bring them back using different aircraft. why not use the aircraft that are doing nothing? makes common sense. as the former president of the uk society of editors, i'm not surprised you've picked out this story but why should we ca re picked out this story but why should we care about a spat amongst editors? you don't have to care about it but it is interesting. the fa ct about it but it is interesting. the fact is that paul dacre, a divisive figure, as the daily mail is from time to time

there is a robotics factoryjust outside manchester, near the airport. it is clearly hard work. you think it is easy to pick a book and put it in a crate but all the workers wear safety gloves because they are shoving their hands into these robotic wardrobes with all the stuff going round, and they are all monitored with cameras everywhere. amazon say this is to improve efficiency and for the safety of the workers, but there is no doubt that some workers feel under pressure. interesting story. let's look at something the guardian is discussing today, saudi arabia's push to increase it as a popular destination forforeign increase it as a popular destination for foreign travellers. this is fascinating because saudi arabia is not top of my list of places to visit as a tourist but they have just announced that you can stay in hotel room as tourist if you are not married, you can share a hotel room, which previously was not allowed and you had to prove you were married to share a hotel room. they have got work to do in terms of the image of saudi arabia at th

the final flight is the one that lands at manchester airport at 8:35am. from orlando to manchester. authority has brought back 140,000 people, the rest have made their own way back stop interestingly, it a 94% of them actually managed to come back on the day and about the same time they were due to come back, so many of them won't have noticed a huge difference to their travel plans, given it has been relatively smooth and the civil aviation authority organise this, known as operation motorman, got people back quite quickly. those are people who have been on holiday, what about those whose holidays were cancelled? the attention and was turning to those who you to go away. 360,000 holidays were booked with thomas cook that now have to be refunded. that affects about 800,000 passengers. clearly a lot of work for them to do right now. they are expecting a flood of applications for refunds, because from today you can put in your claim for a future holiday that has been cancelled to get your holiday back. people like geoff. let's have a listen. we were going to go to cuba stop we have be

and tomorrow on breakfast, i'm going to a job spur at manchester airport, and what they do is bring together match them up with newjobs in the travel industry. a lot of airlines are taking on a lot of travel agencies. if you're going, let me know, i would love to talk to you in the morning. we get a sense of these people trying to get back to work. the daily telegraph has this man who used to manage liveable several yea rs used to manage liveable several years ago, it's a great interview with risk, the people who don't perhaps follow football will remember about him is that he nearly died while doing hisjob. he had a cardiac emergency while he was at the field, and the night his life was saved was just an incredible story. the club doctor took his pressure, if he hadn't done that, they wouldn't have known what was going on with his heart. they got an ambulance in quickly, liverpool was one of three rationalist heart centres, he had 11.5 hours of hard surgery, and here he is now —— specialist —— heart surgery. surgery, and here he is now —— specialist -- heart surgery. he was very ill when it

airport. those your headlines right now on bbc news. five people have been injured in a knife attack at the arndale shopping centre in manchester. a man has been arrested at the scene after being tasered by police. the counterterrorism unit are now leading the investigation. last night officers said the man had been assessed by specialist is an detained under the mental health act. late morning in central manchester. a man is arrested shortly after several people have been stabbed. an officer stands over him with his taser drawn. moments earlier, police inside the arndale centre ran towards the danger. some customers were locked inside the shops, including one man who was joined by a woman who the attacker had just lashed out at. he was just going round, presumably stabbing random people. it wasn't until the police finally came in, and they actually asked us if it was a real knife, and they confirmed it was a real knife, that she obviously flooded with tears. five people were injured by the attacker, as the shopping centre went into lockdown. people started shutting, like, the shutters in the shops, and folk were, like, diving i

manchester city's catalan manager pep guardiola who has advocated for the session of catalonia for his message to catalans to get behind the tsunami democratic came out on the day protesters occupy the airport the reaction from the spanish authorities was swift a judge ordered their websites and social media platforms to be shut down part of an ongoing investigation into the movement of charges of terrorism when we mind but hobbs's the. political party of which where do we hide behind the 1st of the over the phone and the one all for the same organisation and are now behind these anonymous blood form but it's some kind of a political leap to be preparing the action for a lot of ones they don't mean of their website whatever it is that is on july 2019 so we might. have been preparing for a lot of time so anyone who wants to join the tsunami democratic or they 1st have to download the app on an android phone and then they have to activate it by getting a q.r. code from another user that code can only be used for a limited amount of times now there's no account of such that's created however the user has to agree with being able to track their location so far the app is still awaiting activati